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The Kenyon Review

Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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50 Years

Poetry

Campus Dogs

By Donald Finkel

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At Roxy’s Topless

By Donald Finkel

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Calling

By Jordan Smith

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Witness

By Jordan Smith

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A Song of Dowland’s on the Stereo

By Jordan Smith

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On the Resemblance of Poetry to Prayer

By Jordan Smith

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Groundwork, a New House

By Michael J. Rosen

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On Reading Cavafy

By William Collins Watterson

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Teaching My Son to Talk

By William Collins Watterson

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Thinking of Jackson Pollock

By William Collins Watterson

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La Plata, Missouri: Bandstand

By Jim Barnes

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La Plata, Missouri: Santa Fe Depot, Sundown

By Jim Barnes

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Man in the Kitchen

By Michael J. Bugeja

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How to End a Romance

By Michael J. Bugeja

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For Fanny Goldberg, Who Asked God to Bless Me

By John Repp

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The Death of a Friend

By Robin Shectman

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The Comet Visits the City

By Robin Shectman

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House of the Black Glass

By Robin Shectman

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Spite: Her Tale

By Sydney Lea

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Fiction

A Thief

By Erin McGraw

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A Very Fishy Story

By Joseph H. Wessling

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An Errand of Mercy

By Frank Manley

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Everything

By Nicholas Delbanco

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Nonfiction Prose

Special Anniversary Feature: Excerpts from the War Years